"I always bought GM cars, so I figured I'd try a Pontiac," said Melodie Kyler.

But, according to Kyler and her husband, their new car experience was anything but pleasant.

"I told my husband, 'I don't want to get in the car anymore because we're going to die. I know we're going to die from it,'" Kyler said.

In 1999, Kyler bought a new Pontiac Grand Prix GT, but soon after purchasing the new car it began to smell and she started to get sick.

"Your eyes would burn, you get nose bleeds, your skin would burn, you just wanted to die by the time you got out of the car and into the house, you were so sick," Kyler said.

Kyler said that she brought it back to the dealership, but the dealership's solution to the problem -- using deodorizer -- didn't do the trick.

"The smell would come back as time would go by -- the dirty sock smell to a pee smell to finally a dead-animal smell," Kyler said.

The Kylers said that they couldn't figure out what was going on with their car until they took it to their own mechanic. The Kylers said the mechanic identified the problem as mold. He even pulled up a General Motors service bulletin citing an air conditioning odor problem similar to the Kylers' problem.

The Kylers got a lawyer involved and the law firm's expert identified it as some of the worst mold he had ever seen.

"I've seen mold but never, never in this magnitude in my career," said Ken Belli, an automotive expert with Kimmel & Silverman.

Belli has spent 17 years working in dealerships as a service manager or service consultant. He inspected the Kylers' car.

"There was mold pretty much growing out of every orifice from inside the car out -- along the deck lid, the rear spoiler, the door jams, all the door openings," Belli said.

The Kylers also contracted an environmental consultant from National Analytical Laboratories, a mold testing and consulting company. They reported that there was mold in the car that can cause strong allergic reactions. There is currently no recall on the vehicle.

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